For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.